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Ticket engine SeatGeek launches developer platform, offers 50/50 revenue split

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Is a 50/50 split more generous than most affiliate plays? This is a slice of slice we're talking about here. I suppose if the API make for quick, painless integration on websites - music and sports blogs have nothing to lose. But not sure it makes sense to suggest you could build an entire mobile app around it.

It's 50% split based on the actual revenue, not the actual price of the ticket, which is not as ludicrous as it sounds.

eBay has a similar affiliate pricing scheme - giving 50%, even up to 75% (last I checked?), but it's % of actual revenue, which is peanuts if you think about it. eBay takes like 1-3% of the actual selling price, and they then give you 50% of that.

Now if it was 50% of the actual ticket price, that would be really something, but it wouldn't be profitable for them of course.

>$170 for every one thousand referrals

well according to google (and google doesn't lie) https://www.google.com/search?q=%24+170+%2F+1000&pws=0

  (US$ 170) / 1000 = 0.17 U.S. dollars

are these converting referrals or just referrals? anyway, seems to me that common google adsense is a much better deal. please proof me wrong.

Awesome job guys. I'm going to try to implement this on a largish music blog - it's gong to make it easy to display nearby concerts by artists featured in a given post.

Sounds great. Let us know if we can help with anything.

I'm astonished at the terms of their API (so far). No limits and free to cache?

http://seatgeek.com/api-terms

It was important to us that we be hyper-permissive in the way people can use this thing. We want our data to be free (as in both "free beer" and "free speech"). And EC2 instances are damn cheap, so we'll bring up as many as we need to support demand.

I have an awesome domain perfect for a ticket site I'm currently doing nothing with, I'd like to make it into a working ticket site using your 50/50 splits with as little work as possible.

1. Do you do white label?

2. Do you have anything I can just point my domain to and earn in some revenue on ticket sales? If not, could it be considered?

1. No, we don't do white labels.

2. Probably easier to discuss directly. Mind shooting me an email at jack@seatgeek.com?

Is the API down?

http://api.seatgeek.com/2/venues?state=ny

...brings up nothing

Not down, but something strange is going on with that parameter. All of these work, but state=ny brings me nothing either

http://api.seatgeek.com/2/venues?state=new&nbspyork

http://api.seatgeek.com/2/venues?state=california

http://api.seatgeek.com/2/venues?state=ca

Sorry about that. I'm deploying a fix right now.

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